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It's ominous that

The Chicago Tribune, responding to industrywide revenue declines, is reducing the size of its newsroom by 11 staff members this week.

Included among the latest departures, announced to Tribune journalists Wednesday, are both of the newspaper's New York-based correspondents.

The Tribune Corporation, of course, owns the Hartford Courant, a paper that's had its share of downsizing in the last few years.

Given all this, it seems problematic whether the Courant (and other newspapers) can continue to exist at all.

UPDATE — The state's legislators are investigating this state of affairs.

FURTHER UPDATE — Josh Marshall chimes in.